Apparatus for feeding seat of signatures to signature controller - has at least one train of boxes, for each compartment of collator, movable along a forward travel line and positioned there by use of manipulator

摘要

The apparatus for feeding sets of signatures to a signature collator (5) having a predetermined large number of compartments (6), comprises, for each compartment of the collator, at least one train of boxes (24, 25) movable along a forward travel line (26). Some boxes of the train of boxes are capable of being positioned initially at a first end of the forward travel line (26), in synchronization with a first manipulator (21) to receive sets of signatures supplied by a group of signature stacking machines (10, 11, 12), and being capable of being positioned subsequently at a second end of the forward travel line (26), in synchronization with a second manipulator (23), to transfer the sets of signatures from these boxes of the train of boxes to the compartment of the collator.